The US comedian has come under fire over jokes he made
Ballymena actor Liam Neeson has said Jimmy Kimmel's jokes about Irish people at the Oscars were "being a bit racist".
Neeson was not in attendance at the awards but when asked what he thought, he told The Times: “I heard he was being a bit racist. Jokes about Irish fighting, drinking, and all that. I don’t know what to say.”Kimmel kicked off the jokes in the opening monologue of the ceremony, saying: "It was some year for diversity and inclusion. We have nominees from every corner of Dublin. Five Irish actors are nominated tonight which means the odds of another fight on stage just went way up.
His latest film, Marlowe, which marks 100 in his wide-spanning catalog, sees him once again in an action role, playing Raymond Chandler's iconic detective Philip Marlowe, who is hired to find heiress Clare Cavendish's missing former lover. Asked if he ever thinks there could be a link between violence on screen and in real life, he told the publication: “It’s very much an American problem — that Second Amendment.
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